The Mist is what a horror film should be - dark, tense, and punctuated by just enough gore to keep the viewer's flinch reflex intact.
In fact, that movie's ending is so uncompromising that one must assume director Frank Darabont had final cut so the studio couldn't interfere. (It's worth noting that the ending is not the same as that of Stephen King's novella, but I won't mention how it has changed.) Darabont has fashioned a tense motion pictures that's ultimately more about paranoia, religious fanaticism, and the price of hopelessness than it is about monsters. But the creatures are present and accounted for, lurking in the white-out that is the mist. Someone has finally succeeded where John Carpenter failed with The Fog.
I disagree, this film is far from scary. There were moments when I jumped a little bit but most of the gore and "scary monster" things in the mist seem kitchen made, not studio produced. The sad thing is I scare easily, I still get random nightmares about "The bride of Chuckie," unfortunaltly "The Mist" left me unscared and wanting my money back, well my boyfriends money back.
